#us-national-security-strategy

#us-national-security-strategy

EU needs to find its backbone and tell the US president to take his National Security Strategy and shove it

Matt Western, a Labour MP and chair of parliament's joint committee on the UK government's national security strategy, warned: The United States consensus that has led the western world since the second world war appears shattered. The prospect of United States interference in the democratic politics of Europe, I believe, is chilling, Western said, adding: The absence of condemnation for Russia is extraordinary, though not surprising. He warned that the US pivot leaves the United Kingdom especially vulnerable.

The adjustments that we see are largely consistent with our vision, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalist Pavel Zarubin, of the state-run TASS news agency, adding: We consider this a positive step. He praised the current administration as fundamentally different from the previous ones and continued: President Trump is currently strong in terms of domestic political positions. And this gives him the opportunity to adjust the concept to suit his vision.

"There's a lot of criticism [in the paper], but I think some of it is also true; if you look at Europe, it has been underestimating its own power towards Russia," Kallas said on a panel at the Doha Forum in Qatar. "We should be more self-confident," she said, adding that the "US is still our biggest ally." "I think we haven't always seen eye to eye on different topics, but I think the overall principle is still there."